Class: Pre-intermediate level Topic: ‘Word stress’ Aim

Lesson plan
Time: 45 minutes
Class: Pre-intermediate level
Topic: ‘Word stress’
Aim: To raise students’ awareness of key areas of pronunciation and help them comprehend word stress
Procedure:

Stage	Activities	Skills practiced	Procedure	Objectives	Time
Introduction	Pre-activity	Speaking; pronunciation	The teacher asks to predict the stress on the given words.	To warm-up and give a gist about today’s theme	5 min
Main part	While-activity 1	Speaking, listening, note taking	Students study given information about Stress and its types	To introduce the new topic and carry out activities with students	10 min
	While-activity 2	Reading, speaking	The teacher gives a text for students about word stress	To practice the new theme.	15 min
	While-activity 3	Speaking	The teacher explains main features of word stress	To see whether students understand the whole theme	10 min
Conclusion (Homework)	Post activity	Speaking, writing	The teacher tests how his students comprehend the topic	To summarize the whole lesson	5 min

Pre-activity
Find the words which have stress on the first syllable


While-activity 1
Here are a number of words taken from different sets: cities in Great Britain; names of boys and girls; animals, countries and rivers. Your first task is to fill in the grid, placing the words, according to the number of syllables. The British cities have been done for you as an example.
Ann / elephant / Volga / Felicity / Spain / Wolverhampton / Nile / rhinoceros /
Alexander / Jemima / Japan / Amazon / bear / George / Cardiff / Janet / Peter /
Afghanistan / giraffe / Leith / Mississippi / Anthony / Manchester / Morocco /
1 syllable 2 syllables 3 syllables 4 syllables
Cities Leith Cardiff Manchester Wolverhampton
Boy’s name:
Girl’s name:
Animals:
Countries:
Rivers:


While activity 2
Read the text and find the words which have stress on the second syllable
Art prices have fallen drastically. The art market is being flooded with good material, much of it from big-name artists, including Pablo Pitasso and Andy Warhol. Many pieces sell for less than you might expect, with items that would have made £20,000 two years ago fetching only £5,000 to £10,000 this autumn, according to Philip Hoffman, chief executive of the Fine Art Fund. Here, we round up what is looking cheap now, with a focus on works in the range of £500 to £10,000.
While activity 3
Underline the unstressed syllables in the bold words
disease
protection
environment
behavior
society
together

Post activity
This quiz tests your understanding of the word stress pages. For each question, the correct choice is the one in which the stressed syllable is capitalized, as in vocabulary.

1. Can you pass me a plastic knife?
A) PLAS-tic B) plas-TIC
2. I want to be a photographer.
A) PHO-to-graph-er B) pho-TO-graph-er
3. Which photograph do you like best?
A) PHO-to-graph B)pho-TO-graph
4. He was born in China.
A) CHI-na B) Chi-NA
5. Whose computer is this?
A)com-PU-ter B) com-pu-TER
6. I can't decide which book to borrow.
A) DE-cide B) de-CIDE
7. Couldn't you understand what she was saying?
A) un-DER-stand B) un-der-STAND
8. Voting in elections is your most important duty.
A) im-POR-tant B) im-por-TANT
9. We had a really interesting conversation.
A) con-VER-sa-tion B)con-ver-SA-tion
10. How do you pronounce this word?
A) PRO-nounce B) pro-NOUNCE